Are Sweet Gum Tree Leaves Poisonous

I think my dog has eaten some sweet gum balls from a sweet gum tree.

Are sweet gum tree leaves poisonous. The star anise pod is about 7 shikimic acid the pine needles 3 and the sweet gum 1 7 to 3. In a few weeks the sweet gum s glossy green leaves. Hundreds more lie scattered throughout the grass and spill out onto the alleyway asphalt where most are flattened by car wheels. Fruit trees that contain cyanogenic glycosides are members of the prunus genus or the malus genus including apple crabapple cherry peach apricot almond and plum trees.

How will these trees affect the horses. Sweet gum trees are excellent shade trees. The fragrant leaves are green in the summer and brilliant shades of orange yellow and red in the fall. Posted on friday aug 10 2007 7 03 pm.

I just bought some land that has 4 or 5 gum trees in the pasture. She s a flat coated retriever about 75 lbs. Discussion on gum trees or sweet gum trees and horses author. On this early spring day the tree is still a skeleton although leaf buds are just beginning to emerge and dozens of sweet gum balls dangle from its naked branches like shriveled christmas tree ornaments.

The leaves are more toxic when they are in the process of wilting. Sweet gum bark and leaves have some but the highest concentration is in the infertile seeds. The imperfect fungus dicarpella dryina sutton is a leaf parasite reported to occur on a wide range of host plants including species of sweet gum liquidambar styraciflua l. Are these things harmful to dogs.

There are other trees that shed red leaves in the fall but the red maple has some distinctive features says anthony knight bvsc mrcvs who specializes in toxic trees and plants at colorado state university. Limber and cash reported that leaf spots produced by this pathogen on several different genera of forest trees were 2 5 mm diameter with regular margins. I think she may have ingested them this morning. She always is trying to eat something but now she s very lethargic and is drinking lots of water.

Posted on friday aug 10 2007 8 16 pm. Interestingly sweet gum tea was an herbal treatment for the flu and the cherokee made a tea out of the bark. Are they poisonous or bad for them.